Blount v. Exxon Corp.’s Empirical Analysis
1981
Citation profile
24 state decisions
How this case has been cited
Cited by 24 later decisions — most recently October 2016
24 state decisions
Later decisions citing this case, by decade. The current decade is in progress, and our corpus holds fewer opinions from the most recent years, so the latest bars are undercounted — not a real decline.
Relationships
Relies on 372 So. 2d 1225 - Chaisson v. Domingue · Barnes v. Sun Oil Co. · 282 So. 2d 503 - Reeves v. Louisiana and Arkansas Railway Company · Cheramie v. Sweatman · 369 So. 2d 1117 - Boudreaux v. Boudreaux
Most-quoted passages
The sentences later courts lift from this opinion, ranked by how many decisions quote each — the parts of the opinion doing the work. These counts are smaller than the citation total above because most of the 24 citing decisions cite the case generally; a passage count includes only decisions quoting that exact language verbatim.
“"There is no essential dispute that maintenance and repair services performed by non-Exxon employees at Exxon's chemical plant are part of Exxon's trade, business or occupation. This statement, however, does not answer the question of whether Exxon's trade, business or occupation includes a major reconversion of one type of alcohol production facility into another type of alcohol production facility. There is no evidence in the record before us as to whether Exxon regularly engaged in the business of converting its production facilities from one type of unit to another. Although one affidavit stated that Exxon had the design capacity to design the entire expansion project, the same affidavit noted that Exxon chose to contract out some of that work because Exxon design personnel were needed elsewhere. "As noted above, the plaintiff filed no countervailing affidavits or other evidence to show that there was a genuine issue of material fact. But even if the opposing party does not show that there is a genuine factual dispute, the party moving for a summary judgment must bring forth sufficient evidence to show that it is entitled to a judgment as a matter of law. [Citation omitted.] To be entitled to judgment as a matter of law in this case, Exxon had to prove that reconversion projects of the type at issue in this case were regularly done as a part of Exxon's trade, business or occupation. * * *"”
2 later decisions quote this exact passage“Until a new trial is granted, [new evidence] attached to plaintiff-appellant's,motion for a new trial [is] not before this court and form[s] no part of the record on appeal.”
1 later decision quote this exact passage
How this case has been treated — in progress
Whether each later court followed, distinguished, criticized, or overruled this decision. The treatment classification (task #35) runs highest-cited cases first and lights up here as it reaches this one.